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CCNA – Subnetting Questions 2

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Here you will find answers to Subnetting Questions – Part 2

Question 1

Refer to the exhibit. Which VLSM mask will allow for the appropriate number of host addresses for Network A?

subnetting_wan.jpg

A. /25
B. /26
C. /27
D. /28


Answer: A

Explanation

We need 66 hosts < 128 = 27 -> We need 7 bits 0 -> The subnet mask should be 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1111.1000 0000 -> /25

Question 2

Refer to the exhibit. Which subnet mask will place all hosts on Network B in the same subnet with the least amount of wasted addresses?

subnetting_wan.jpg

A. 255.255.255.0
B. 255.255.254.0
C. 255.255.252.0
D. 255.255.248.0


Answer: B

Explanation

310 hosts < 512 = 29 -> We need a subnet mask of 9 bits 0 -> 1111 1111.1111 1111.1111 1110.0000 0000 -> 255.255.254.0

Question 3

Refer to the exhibit. Which mask is correct to use for the WAN link between the routers that will provide connectivity while wasting the least amount of addresses?

subnetting_wan.jpg

A. /23
B. /24
C. /25
D. /30


Answer: D

Explanation

For WAN link we only need 2 usable host addresses for 2 interfaces on the routers. The subnet mask of /30 gives us 22 – 2 = 2 usable host addresses. Also remember that “/30″ is famous for point-to-point connection because it wastes the least amount of addresses.

Question 4

Refer to the exhibit. What is the most appropriate summarization for these routes?

subnetting_summarize.jpg

A. 10.0.0.0/21
B. 10.0.0.0/22
C. 10.0.0.0/23
D. 10.0.0.0/24


Answer: B

Explanation

We need to summarize 4 subnets so we have to move left 2 bits (22 = 4). In this question we can guess the initial subnet mask is /24 because 10.0.0.0, 10.0.1.0, 10.0.2.0, 10.0.3.0 belong to different networks. So “/24″ moves left 2 bits -> /22.

Question 5

On the network 131.1.123.0/27, what is the last IP address that can be assigned to a host?

A. 131.1.123.30
B. 131.1.123.31
C. 131.1.123.32
D. 131.1.123.33


Answer: A

Explanation

Increment: 32
Network address: 131.1.123.0 & 131.1.123.32
Broadcast address: 131.1.123.31

Both 131.1.123.30 & 131.1.123.33 can be assigned to host but the question asks about the “last IP address” so A is the correct answer.

Question 6

The ip subnet zero command is not configured on a router. What would be the IP address of Ethernet0/0 using the first available address from the sixth subnet of the network 192.168.8.0/29?

A. 192.168.8.25
B. 192.168.8.41
C. 192.168.8.49
D. 192.168.8.113


Answer: C

Explanation

The “ip subnet zero” is not configured so the first subnet will start at 192.168.8.8 (ignoring 192.168.8.0).

Increment: 8
1st subnet: 192.168.8.8
2nd subnet: 192.168.8.16
3rd subnet: 192.168.8.24
4th subnet: 192.168.8.32
5th subnet: 192.168.8.40
6th subnet: 192.168.8.48 -> The first usable IP address of 6th subnet is 192.168.8.49

Question 7

For the network 192.0.2.0/23, which option is a valid IP address that can be assigned to a host?

A. 192.0.2.0
B. 192.0.2.255
C. 192.0.3.255
D. 192.0.4.0


Answer: B

Explanation

Increment: 2

Network address: 192.0.2.0, 192.0.4.0
Broadcast address: 192.0.3.255

-> 192.0.2.255 is not a broadcast address, it is an usable IP address.

Question 8

How many addresses for hosts will the network 124.12.4.0/22 provide?

A. 510
B. 1022
C. 1024
D. 2048


Answer: B

Explanation

/22 gives us 10 bits 0 -> 210 – 2 = 1022. Notice that the formula to calculate the number of host is: 2k – 2.

Question 9

The network default gateway applying to a host by DHCP is 192.168.5.33/28. Which option is the valid IP address of this host?

A. 192.168.5.55
B. 192.168.5.47
C. 192.168.5.40
D. 192.168.5.32
E. 192.168.5.14


Answer: C

Question 10

Which two addresses can be assigned to a host with a subnet mask of 255.255.254.0? (Choose two)

A. 113.10.4.0
B. 186.54.3.0
C. 175.33.3.255
D. 26.35.2.255
E. 17.35.36.0


Answer: B D

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  1. Mohamed
    March 4th, 2013

    Thanks MH.

    Is the Mask 255.254.0.0 or 255.255.254.0 I am confused. Could u please explain me thanks.

  2. ben
    March 11th, 2013

    Hi Mohamed,

    the difference is that, 255.254.0.0. -> .254 is belong to 2nd octet and the it has /15 notation. while the 255.255.254.0 -> .254 is belong to 3rd octet which have a /23 notation.

  3. Yoly
    March 13th, 2013

    So how do you find which IP could be assigned?

  4. mista
    March 15th, 2013

    the mask 255.255.254.0 is for /23
    so the network range will be for example 26.35.2.0-26.35.4.0
    broadcast mask will be 26.35.3.255 and so the first host will be 26.35.2.255
    remember 256-254 you get 2.. the subnets will be 0,2,4,6,8….

  5. ben
    March 17th, 2013

    @mista, 26.35.2.255? is this the first usable ip.. i think wrong.
    the first usable ip should be 26.35.2.1 ; usable ip are from 26.35.2.1 to 26.35.3.254

  6. Syed Kashif Shahab
    March 19th, 2013

    Q 10;

    simple understanding for question 10. the question asked is 255.255.254.0. The play is in the thrid octet ’254′ which has 7 bits having an increment of 2…. like 128–64–32–16–8–4–2–1.
    the bits taken from 128 to 2….so the magic number that i call the rightmost bit is 2. Now create the ranges as following..

    increment 2:
    beginning scope with the increment of 2.
    0.0——-
    2.0——-
    4.0——
    6.0——
    8.0——-

    The last IP is 0.255-1=254 usable ip i.e. x.x.x.254 likewise The last IP is 2.255-1=254 usable ip i.e. x.x.x.254 so we will write like this..

    0.0——-1.255
    2.0——-3.255
    4.0——5.255
    6.0——7.255
    8.0——-9.255
    36.0—–37.255

    Now check from the given ip list which comes under these subnets. remember not to use subnet id or broadcast id as they are not assignable ips…i.e. for example for subnet 2.0——-3.255 2.1 >>>>>>2.1 —– 3.254 are usable IPs.

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    March 19th, 2013

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    March 21st, 2013

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  9. Yaser Arafat
    March 23rd, 2013

    A network administrator is configuring ACLs on a Cisco router, to allow IP access form the 192.168.146.0/24,192.168.147.0/24,192.168.148.0/2,. and 192.168.149.0/24 networks only. Which two ACLs, when combined, should be used.

    A.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.146.0 0.0.0.255
    B.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.146.0 255 255.255.0
    C.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.147.0 0.0.255 255
    D.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.149.0 0.0.255.255.0
    E.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.148.0 0.0.1.255
    F.access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.146.0 0.0.1.255

    answer :E F
    can anybody explain to me this one? Thanks!

  10. Pasu
    March 27th, 2013

    @Yaser
    I dont think answer is E and F because /24 will not have wildcard mask of 0.0.1.255
    Wild card mask of /24 is 0.0.0.255

  11. Netzis
    April 3rd, 2013

    @Yaser
    Wildcard of 0.0.1.255 = subnet of 255.255.254.0 = CIDR /23 which covers 2 times /24 ranges.
    Only necessary because you are being limited to 2 lines in the ACL instead of 4.

    Can check with binary calculation: host address AND subnet mask = network address

    e.g. 147 = 10010011, 254 = 11111110, do an AND operation and you get 146 i.e. 192.168.146.0 so you see you are covered for 192.168.146.0-192.168.147.255

  12. RAJ
    April 13th, 2013

    PLS SOME EXPLAIN Q10

  13. Pasu
    April 13th, 2013

    @Raj
    Question 10.

    A. 113.10.4.0 (Its a network number whose broadcast address is 113.10.7.255. So, it cant be assigned as host)

    B. 186.54.3.0(This is a valid host whose network number is 186.54.0.0 and broadcast is 186.54.3.255)

    C. 175.33.3.255(It’s not a valid host because it’s a broadcast number for the network 175.33.0.0)

    D. 26.35.2.255(It’s a valid host whose network number is 26.35.0.0 and broadcast is 26.35.3.255)

    E. 17.35.36.0(It’s not a valid host because it’s a network number whose broadcast is 17.35.39.255)

    I hope this will help.
    Please correct me if I am wrong somewhere.

  14. golu
    April 14th, 2013

    PLS SOME EXPLAIN Q-9

  15. golu
    April 14th, 2013

    Q-9 solved

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  17. itzjohn
    April 25th, 2013

    @ yaser

    Those are the correct answers.

    E. Access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.148.0 0.0.1.255

    Lets change the wild card mask to a subnet mask.
    0.0.1.255 is the same as 255.255.254.0 = (510 host)

    This ACL covers 192.168.148.1 – 192.168.149.255
    Meaning it cover both 192.168.148.0 & 192.168.149.0 networks.

    ——————————————————————————————-

    F. Access-list 10 permit ip 192.168.146.0 0.0.1.255

    Lets change the wild card mask to a subnet mask.
    0.0.1.255 is the same as 255.255.254.0 = (510 host)

    This ACL covers 192.168.146.1 – 192.168.147.255
    Meaning it cover both 192.168.146.0 & 192.168.147.0 networks.

    ——————————————————————————————-

    Using both these two ACL will cover all 4 networks.

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    May 3rd, 2013

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    May 9th, 2013

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  21. Needs help
    May 29th, 2013

    Hello everybody! i will be thankful if somebody can help to determine the answer for
    “What will be the 18th subnet of 172.16.0.0/30?”
    and usable ip.

    Thanks a lot

  22. Anonymous
    June 4th, 2013

    @needs help….if we don’t enable 0th subnet then the 1st subnet will be 172.16.0.0 so increment is 4…the last bit in /30…….
    172.16.0.4
    172.16.0.8
    172.16.0.12
    .
    .
    so 18th subnet ….will be 172.16.0.72
    usable ip 172.16.0.73 – 172.16.0.74

  23. correction
    June 4th, 2013

    I mean….@needs help….if we don’t enable 0th subnet then the 1st subnet will be 172.16.0.4 so increment is 4…the last bit in /30…….
    172.16.0.4
    172.16.0.8
    172.16.0.12
    .
    .
    so 18th subnet ….will be 172.16.0.72
    usable ip 172.16.0.73 – 172.16.0.74

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    June 5th, 2013

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  25. Ruth
    June 13th, 2013

    If you write 255.255.254.0 in binary you get 11111111.11111111.11111110.00000000
    so focusing on the third octet the ranges will be x.x.0.0 – x.x.1.255 (where x can be any value because we are interested in the third and fourth octet) so we have for ranges for the third and fourth octet only:
    .0.0 – .1.255
    .2.0 – .3.255
    .4.0 – .5.255
    .6.0 – .7.255
    .8.0 – .9.255
    .10.0 – .11.255
    You know you cannot use the first number because it is the network number and the last number because it is the broadcast. Any numbers that does not fall into this 2 categories will be used by hosts.

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    June 18th, 2013

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  28. sabyasachi
    June 21st, 2013

    Hi
    I couldn’t understand how ’255′ is added to an ip address “175.33.3.255″ in class B/A and is assigned to a network . Please help…

  29. Richtoe
    June 24th, 2013

    Can someone expline thie please -
    Question 9

    The network default gateway applying to a host by DHCP is 192.168.5.33/28. Which option is the valid IP address of this host?

    A. 192.168.5.55
    B. 192.168.5.47
    C. 192.168.5.40
    D. 192.168.5.32
    E. 192.168.5.14

    Why is answer .40

  30. Anonymous
    June 27th, 2013

    Could give the explanation of question 9 ?
    Why .40 specific
    Why notr .14 or .55???

    Network address: .16 .32 .48 .60 .76 .92
    Broadcast address: .15 .31 .47 .59 .75 .91

    Thank you in advance for your help.

  31. rahman
    June 28th, 2013

    The subnet is /28. so its 255.255.255.240. Subtract 255-240= 16.
    So your every subnet has 16 host, but the first one is the default address and last is broadcast address.

    The default network given is 192.168.5.33 , It means its that it belongs to 192.168.5.32 address group, from .33 to .47.

    IN the given options only .40 satisfies the condition, hence its the only right answer.

  32. Raj
    July 5th, 2013

    Hi all,

    Can anyone please help me working out with q9 and q10, please?

    Thanks

  33. pat
    July 10th, 2013

    at some point I got confused by question 4 too, dunno why
    for those who are still confused, have a look at this

    http://postimg.org/image/iojstw6hd/

  34. pat
    July 10th, 2013

    @Raj

    q9

    we have the address of the default gateway 192.168.5.33/28 — this is valid IP address

    /28 = 192.168.5.0
    192.168.5.16
    192.165.5.32
    192.168.5.64 and so on, so we have increments of 16 as 192.168.5.0000|0000

    our address is falling into 192.168.5.32 network, range of valid ip addresses is
    192.168.5.33 – 192.168.5.62 note that 192.168.5.63 can’t be used as it is the last ip address in this subnet therefore is broadcast address

    you should be able to answer the question now

  35. pat
    July 10th, 2013

    @raj

    q9

    sorry the range of valid IPs is 192.168.5.33 – 192.168.5.47, increaments of 16 not 32, sorry about it

  36. Rob
    July 11th, 2013

    I’m still confused by Q4, i know a few people have posted solutions but they aren’t making any sense to me.

    Can someone lay it out step by step please?

  37. ilan
    July 16th, 2013

    q.10

    how choose host ip address….
    255.255.254.0 mean /23 we can use 512 ip address in one network with any of the series…

  38. Vick
    July 21st, 2013

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  39. Anonymous
    July 22nd, 2013

    Hi 9tut,
    I still don’t understand the explanation of question 4. Can you please explain clearly how we are moving two bits left? Thx

  40. The Pig
    July 22nd, 2013

    @ANON

    The way I use to work out summarisation is this.

    Q.4 has 4 subnets, so how many bits are needed for those subnets? 2×2 = 4 So 2 bits are required. Then simply take 2 from the original subnet mask (which you can tell is a /24) so 24-2 = 22 so its a /22 you use. If you have multiple subnets with different slash notations to summarise then use the lowest slash notation of those subnets.

    Don’t know if its proven but its worked for me!

  41. pearl
    July 24th, 2013

    for summarization, all that matters is the block size that’ll contain all the networks you wanta summarize.
    10.0.0.0
    10.1.0.0
    10.2.0.0
    10.3.0.0
    from 0-3 is 4 numbers i.e. block size 4.now which class B maks offers a block size of 4? 255.255.252.0= /22. easy peasy

  42. pearl
    July 24th, 2013

    sorry, the networks are
    10.0.0.0
    10.0.1.0
    10.0.2.0
    10.0.3.0
    and they are summarized with a class B mask bcos the network numbers are in the 3rd subnet i.e 255.255.252.0=3rd subnet.

  43. Anonymous
    July 31st, 2013

    Can u guys plz explain me the answer of last question?? i didnt get it

  44. chanaka
    August 4th, 2013

    nice work done by 9tut

  45. rose
    August 14th, 2013

    thanks Rahman

  46. Anas Salo
    August 20th, 2013

    Question 10 solution
    A.113.10.4.0
    B.186.54.3.0
    C.175.33.3.255
    D.26.35.2.255
    E.17.35.36.0

    solution :
    the subnet mask 255.255.254.0 Means ( /23 ) .
    We will check all IP address refer to the subnet mask .
    In this question we will analyze the last 2 octets to Binary and select subnet mask On IP

    A. 113.10.0000010[[0.00000000
    It turns out after determining the subnet mask This IP is Network Address (can not be assigned)

    B. 186.54.0000001[[1.00000000 (can be assigned)

    C. 175.33.0000001[[1.11111111
    It turns out after determining the subnet mask This IP is BC Address (can not be assigned)

    D. 26.35.0000001[[0.11111111 (can be assigned)

    E.17.35.0010010[[0.00000000
    It turns out after determining the subnet mask This IP is Network Address (can not be assigned)

    :. Answer B.D

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    August 20th, 2013

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    The exam will be held next month
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    August 21st, 2013

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  49. sandip
    August 25th, 2013

    Q-7 having some mistake regarding calcution of the subnet
    192.0.2.0 /29 subnet range 192.0.2.0 – 192.0.3.255 and subnet mask will be 255.255.255.254

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